IL SENTIERO E IL LABIRINTO di Simone Padelli @simone.pad
‘In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni’. La frase palindroma di origine Latina, la cui traduzione è ‘’vaghiamo in giro nella notte mentre il fuoco ci consuma’’, retrocede su sé stessa, costruita lettera per lettera come un labirinto, rappresenta perfettamente la forma e il contenuto della perdizione e della deriva. La frase ha origini molto antiche, viene spesso associata a Sidonio Apollinare, ma della sua esatta attribuzione non c’è certezza. Il suo significato metaforico viene associato al volo delle falene notturne, che attratte dalla luce del fuoco, finiscono per uccidersi; oppure al lento consumarsi delle torce come metafora del tempo che scorre inesorabile. L’espressione latina ha ispirato il mio lavoro.
Here’s the translation:
“In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.” The Latin palindromic phrase, which translates as “we wander in the night and are consumed by fire,” folds back on itself, built letter by letter like a labyrinth, perfectly embodying both the form and the content of perdition and drift. Its origins are very ancient and often linked to Sidonius Apollinaris, though its exact attribution remains uncertain. Its metaphorical meaning is commonly associated with the flight of nocturnal moths, which, drawn to the fire’s light, end up killing themselves; or with the slow burning of torches as a metaphor for time’s relentless passage. This Latin expression inspired my work.
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In the Journal of Urbanautica, a new review by Steve Bisson on the ongoing work "The Silent Season" by Simone Padelli.
"The Silent Season, Simone Padelli’s photographic project, offers a meditation on memory and belonging through the lens of one of Italy’s smallest inhabited islands—a speck of land just two kilometers around, with only about ten permanent residents in a lake in central Italy. By choosing to focus on this secluded and seemingly marginal place, Padelli embraces an ethnographic approach to photography that resists the spectacular. Instead, the author situates within the community, listening to its echoes, inhaling its silences, and engaging in what I defined “tramandanze”—acts of transmission that go beyond mere testimony to become conscious, lived, and authentic participation."
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When she was home
She was a swan
When she was out she was a tiger
And a tiger in the wild is not tied to anyone
When she was lost
She was a toad
The day I found her on the road
I gave her water and a rose
And as she stretched
The sun rose
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- To see something spectacular and recognize it as a photographic possibilities is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility, that’s what I’m interested in. -
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